The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

4 "A NOI ~ tnC Odi oOff sAtAtAN hteS
discovered that drill points heated TO .
cherry rcd and tempered by being driven
into a bar of lead, viii bore through the
hardest steel or plate glass without per-
ceptibly bunting.
There is considerable phosphorus
IN the soil in portions Of Georgia In
Albany this spring the light emitted has
been remarkable, and correspondent
writes: Pedestrians have caught this
luminous substance on their feet, and
their path would be marked for n short
distance by the light"
Deer in the far West are fast going
the way of the buffalo. One dealer I'm
jacksonville, Ore. in two mOrths
bought 1900 deer skins, and other deal
ers in Southern Oregon have bought as
mdnt. These were all killed for their
.kins only, contrary to law.-SpriRg-
field (O.) Times.
A dispatch from Algeria announces
The death of the greatest lion slayefthat
the world has ever seen. Ahmed-ben-
Ahmar, who was last year made a
Knight of the Legion Of Honor. He
killed eighty lions and as many pan
theirs from the time he learned to shoot
until his departure for the happy hunt
ing grounds. !
The Chicago Nc,ss claims to have
received letter from Charles Egbert
Craddock favoring knee-breeches in
these words: II have worn them for
number of years, and am very much
pleased with them. Nothing could in
duce me to wear trousers now. Dos
ton Globe.
The King of the Sandwich Islands
has decorated King MalietOa of Samoa
with the grand cross of the royal order
of the Star of Oceana. Owing to his
general lack of costume the latter mon
arch doesn't know how to pin it on
Chicago NeCs.
An eighteen-year-old young man
of Richie County. Ind, fell i'll with
measles His grandmother, anxious to
effect a speedy cure and ''bring them
OUT placed him between two ticks OF
feathers, with hot stones ut his feet and
live sheep alongside him. lie died.
An extremely useful cement for ex-
detrimental use is made from equal
quantities of gutta-percha and white
pine pitch melted together. The COM
pound should be without Jumps. 1t inn
proves by remelting, and softens mt
about the temperature of boiling water.
boston Budget.
"A citizen of Little Falls, N. Y, who
has carefully measured the snowfall
there last winter, says that he makes it
fourteen feet and nine inches, an I'M
precedented depth. The spot where the
snow was measured was in cedar
swamp surrounded by trees, which was
protected in such n manner that no
snow blew in or out, and the figures are
supposed to be accurate.
AT recent meeting in Baltimore
of the Freedman's Aid Society, an or
canization for the education Of Meth
odist ministers among the negroes OK
the South, Secretary T. c. Hartzell said
that the colored people are increasing
more by births than the whites are by
births and immigration combined. Five
hundred colored babies are born every
twenty-four hours.-N Y Sun.
The total consumption of cocoa is
80, 900, 900 pounds per annum. supplied
mainly by the West Indies and South
America. France heads the list with
&c, 900, 900 pounds; Spain comes next
with 100000 pounds; then follow
England. 14,OOO,OOO pounds; and the
United States, $780, 900 pounds.-M r
Post.
An explorer of prehistoric mounds
in Ohio has found carefully wrought
hatchets of soft coal associated with
human skeletons and bronze ornaments.
From the character of the material it is
evident that these were meant to simu-
late axes of flint, and were OF no use
excepting in burials.-Goldep Rule.
"A double chicken of the Siamese-
twin pattern absorbs the attention OF
the people of Rochefort, Me. 1t has
two heads and two pairs of legs, but
these several members do not agree
when the chicken takes its, or their,
walks abroad-Onc head and pair OF
legs trying to shape their course to the
right, and the balance as persistently
working for larbOard cOurse.-BOStoH
Transcript.
The other day, at Buffalo, N. T.,
while steam boiler was being severely
tested, a terrific explosion occurred,
and the boiler was hurled several hum
bred feet into the air. In coming down
il struck the side of a brick building
and tore n huge hole in it. What was
very singular was that the boiler was
not broken or shattered, but went up
and came down whole, and nobody was
injured by the explosiOn.-N. Y. Ledger.
What is the origin of the name
"Rocky Mountains?" 1 find it in the
narrative of Pierre Gaultier de Varen-
ness. sieur de la Verandrye, whose
three sons, the LIST January, 1743, first
sighted the magnificent range. They
called it '.Montagnes de Pierres Brill
antes," from the sparkling OF the sum-
mits in the sunshine. Then came the
more prosaic name, ''Montagnes Ro-
cheuses'' or Rocky Mountains, and
our still more prosaic, Rockies. -
Montreal Gazette.
The mica mines of North Carolina
produce about ton per month OF the